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TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain   

Their second album and first for Interscope is almost wholly brilliant. Like Mogwai, Sigur Ros and a dozen others, TVOTR excels at making slowly-evolving tunes with vaguely anthemic choruses and lots of loud-soft dynamics. Unlike virtually any of those other bands, TV on the Radio mix a genuine and actual songwriting ability with their knack for finding sounds that appear to be "new." This record is crisper-sounding and incorporates more dance-based elements, but it's essentially a pop album. While the lack of the free web-released "Dry Drunk Emperor, a tribute to President Bush, is initially a bummer, the album percolates with enough pre-apocalyptic tension to satisfy anyone. In a Prince-pitched falsetto, the group sings "I was a lover/ Before this war," While throughout, the combination of melody and invention is always pitch-perfect (well, except on "Province" and "Let the Devil In," those songs sort of suck.) People of Earth: please make this band into total superstars and buy several copies of their album: one for the car, another for the office, etc. What we really need in our popular music is more weirdness, and more truth. --Mike McGonigal


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Tracks

  • A1)   I Was A Lover
  • A2)   Hours
  • A3)   Province
  • A4)   Playhouses
  • A5)   Wolf Like Me
  • A6)   Method
  • B1)   Let The Devil In
  • B2)   Dirtywhirl
  • B3)   Blues From Down Here
  • B4)   Tonight
  • B5)   Wash The Day

Track listing above is from 2013-Jan-01 | Europe | 4AD - CAD 2607 LP

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